Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth century".
Lutyens in 1921
Ground floor plan of Munstead Wood
Ground floor plan of Orchards
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.
RIBA Headquarters
Architectural Aspiration, by Edward Bainbridge, above the main entrance, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
Reading Room, British Architectural Library, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
V&A + RIBA Architecture Gallery, Room 128, Victoria and Albert Museum, London